Almost to the weekend

• More retail observations: After my class last night, I went to the big orange box to check out some things.  In my book, they've never been known for being super customer friendly - not hostile, but generally not around when you need them.  Last night, no fewer than 8 associates spoke to me and asked if they could help me find anything.
• Change in training/tactics?
• I was still dressed in shirt/tie from my workday - wonder if that had an influence?
• Also stopped at Kohl's.  Just a few steps inside, the store, or at least floor, manager greets me "Hello Don, can we help you find anything?"
• Yeah, I'd left my nametag from class on.  About ten minutes later, he spots me again, "Still finding everything OK, Don?".
• Alright, I'm a big fan of Dale Carnegie, too - let's not overdo it, dude.
• Do you suppose the 4077's medevac drivers trained at Wolters?

• The answer, unfortunately, is no.  It didn't become a helo training facility until 1956.
• Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!:

• And rounding out our rotorcraft troika, word reaches our S116's newsdesk that Angelina  has gifted Brad with a helicopter, make unknown, for their place in the south of France.  Maybe she's not so useless as I had thought.
• Wonder if she can make a sammich, though...
• Spotted a campaign sign for former NBC5 reporter Grant Stinchfield on the way to work this morning, which is kinda odd, since my office is not really near the 24th Texas District.
• How in the world do you get name recognition when your name is ... Grant Stinchfield?
• Not for sure, but I think he went to the same school as I did. 
• If I'd had the money, or could have made a reasonable living from it, I would have bought this hardware store and its inventory years ago:

• That place was like a time capsule.  I'll bet that when they auctioned the inventory, there was hardware that'd been in there nearly a hundred years: wagon parts, water pump handles, butter churns.
• Oh, I missed the most important reason I'd like to get an Android Tablet device: So that I can mo-bile blog - like Roger Daltrey Pete Townsend or Walker Railey.
• Well, maybe not Walker Railey.
• Hay now!  I thought hauling hay was backbreaking work when I was a kid - but these bales?  It'd take Paul Bunyans to load it up on a flatbed:

• The cuttings I've been seeing have looked pretty good.  Of course, it's not summer yet.
• I'm not happy with Ranjit and Chad again.  I paid my phone bill again, on time, and got a confirmation email and text, thanking me for my payment. 
• Today I got a text reminding me to pay my bill by yesterday.  Idjits!
• I understand large scale remittance processing systems - but this is ridiculous.
• Here's a nice picture of the TMS Condo Clubhouse pool: